Kunkel, Benjamin (16 de enero de 2017). «A Neglected South American Masterpiece». Newyorker.com. Consultado el 5 de noviembre de 2017. «The belated arrival of Zama in the United States raises an admittedly hyperbolic question: Can it be that the Great American Novel was written by an Argentinean? It’s hard, anyway, to think of a superior novel about the bloody life of the frontier.»
Coetzee, J. M. (5 de noviembre de 2017). «A Great Writer We Should Know». Consultado el 5 de noviembre de 2017. «Zama remains the most attractive of Di Benedetto’s books, if only because of the crazy energy of Zama himself, which is vividly conveyed in Esther Allen’s excellent translation."».